What the hell was Boeing thinking when it agreed to sell a satellite containing top-secret technology to a startup company financed by China?  How the hell did this deal pass muster and gain an export license from the Commerce Department? I am not the only one baffled: Af­ter re­view­ing the trans­action, Adm. Den­nis Blair, a for­mer U.S. di­rec­tor of na­tional in­tel­li­gence, told the Jour­nal that he was baf­fled Boe­ing would pro­ceed with the project.  Adm. Blair chairs an ad­vi­sory com­mit­tee for Lock­heed Mar­tin Space Sys­tems, a Boe­ing com­peti­tor. The Wall Street Journal deserves huge kudos for uncovering a genuine scandal involving national security in a series of two articles, the latter of which (link repaired) was just published, revealing that Boeing has belatedly backed out  of handing over the precious...(Read Full Post)